Here’s my favorite letter from yesterday’s New York Times:
To the Editor:
Re “Democrats Plan Symbolic Votes Against Bush’s Iraq Troop Plan†(front page, Jan. 10):
So the Democrats are planning symbolic votes against more troops for Iraq.
Actually, when I and many other Americans cast our votes against this war, even before the prospect of escalation, they were for real.
Daniel England
Fairfield, Conn., Jan. 10, 2007
The Democrats won Congress and they still have no spine.
If more registered Democrats were as supportive, active, and efficiently organized as are Republicans, our national figure-heads might feel a bit more courageous. We’d see veto-poof dictums bursting forth from the nation’s Congress on such needs as a truly livable minimum wage and an audit of all intelligence programs for civil rights infringement. Instead, we have a bee-in-the-mouth-Republican delegation re-arming for 2008 and a milk-toast Democratic herd trying to find shelter in numbers rather than righteousness.
It’s not that, as a party, we’re poorer (a too common delusion) or lack drive; A dollar never helped anyone become more organized and active (except in Chicago). And the path of the righteous is a matter of conscience. Here’s the issue: The common Democrat believes that various Super_Democrats can effectively do all the work for the entire federal-cause, while the Republican knows it takes *each* of their fold to make the Majority federally effective.
Congress is chess, not checkers.